Photo: Dan Kvitka. Courtesy of Portland Institute for Contemporary Art/Flickr In her artwork America (Burnt/Unburnt), French artist Claire Fontaine created a map of the United States out of 50,...

Obviously, I'm rapidly becoming a fan of Thoma...  ...vitte. Here is his tribute to the inventor of the matchstick , John Walker. Over a series of months, Pavitte cr...  ...n matches. I had no idea, but Walker invented the matchstick by accident--a fact that fascinated Pavitte. Whi...

Some people make furnitures out of scraps of wood,...  ...de theirs from really tiny scraps of wood, namely matchsticks :... since matchsticks were one of the few abundant resources in the USS...  ...nique makeover. While other people threw away the matchsticks after lighting th...

Phillip Warren's hobby for the past 62 years h...  ...years has been building models of warships out of matchsticks . So far, he's used 650,000 matches to build 400...  ...ship in his collection is made using around 1,500 matchsticks and takes about a month to complete, but for his...  ..., but for his larger c...

Ukrainian artist Yurko Gutsulyak has created what is probably the perfect calendar for pyromaniacs: the "days" made of individual matches that you can tear off and set alight.Link - via Typography Served...